PATTI SMITH LIVE
Watch Her Birthday Concert Via Livestream
For punk-rock icon Patti Smith, the show must go on –– even during a pandemic. Her annual birthday performance will happen this year, and fans worldwide will be able to enjoy it virtually.
Smith will stream her show on December 30, beginning at 9 p.m. EST. But she told Rolling Stone it wouldn’t seem like a concert. The veteran rocker wants to offer fans a more cinematic experience. She and her band will be in the studio, and documentary filmmaker Steven Sebring will shoot it. In 2008, Sebring made a full-length documentary about Smith titled Patti Smith: Dream of Life.
“I’m not going into a stream thinking about the absence of the people; I would go into a stream thinking that we’re all with each other,” Smith told Rolling Stone.
Though Smith celebrates her 74th birthday on the night of the concert, she hasn’t slowed down a bit since her days spent playing music’s biggest stages. She’s continued to give occasional performances at others’ shows, award ceremonies, and festivals in recent years. In 2019, she wrote her newest book, Year of the Monkey. And a few years prior, she played herself in the 2018 film Song to Song, alongside Ryan Gosling and Rooney Mara.
In 2020, Smith was awarded Washington University’s International Humanities Prize for her cultural impact as one of the most prolific, multidimensional, and influential artists of her time.
In her recent interview with Rolling Stone, Smith also said she’s been writing a lot during the past year. Like many of us, she took advantage of the extra time at home and channeled her creativity into something new.
You can purchase tickets (presale $10/$15 day of the concert) for Patti Smith’s virtual show here.
